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last four as chairman, as has served four years of the united states navy including active duty in the vietnam war. he has run for president, kind of knows what is happening. and he also already has travelled the globe on behalf of the obama administration, helping mend strained relations with afghanistan and pakistan. during kerry'ses nomination, president obama called him the perfect person for the job. >> i think it's fair to say that few individuals know as many presidents and prime ministers or grasp our foreign policies as firmly as john kerry. and this makes him a perfect choice to guide american diplomacy in the years ahead. >> meanwhile, in a shocking move, wisconsin senator ron johnson voted for john kerry's confirmation today. see, on thursday johnson was kind of put in his place by senator kerry after trying to make a scene over benghazi. >> will you work with me then on an ongoing basis so we can get that behind us, so we can find out what actually happened and we can move beyond that. can you just make that commitment to me? >> i think, senator, in all fairness, i think we do kno
last four as chairman, as has served four years of the united states navy including active duty in the vietnam war. he has run for president, kind of knows what is happening. and he also already has travelled the globe on behalf of the obama administration, helping mend strained relations with afghanistan and pakistan. during kerry'ses nomination, president obama called him the perfect person for the job. >> i think it's fair to say that few individuals know as many presidents and prime...
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for more on the troop levels after 2014 we get two views: bing west fought in the vietnam war with the marines and served as assistant secretary of defense during the reagan administration. he's traveled frequently to afghanistan and authored eight books including "the wrong war: grit, strategy and the way out of afghanistan." and celeste ward gventer was a deputy assistant secretary of defense in 2006 and 2007. she also served as an advisor to u.s. political and military leaders in iraq. she's now at the university of texas in austin. and we thank you both for joining us. bing west, to you first, is it a good idea to even be considering going to zero troops after 2014? >> judy, i think it's nuts. i think it was a highly injudicious statement. our troops are still fighting there. our senior general just came in and offered three options. the midpoint option after 2014 was 12,000 troops. i don't see what the white house gains by making an off-the-cuff statement, well, maybe we will just make it zero. our troops are still in combat. the people who enjoy a statement like that are the tali
for more on the troop levels after 2014 we get two views: bing west fought in the vietnam war with the marines and served as assistant secretary of defense during the reagan administration. he's traveled frequently to afghanistan and authored eight books including "the wrong war: grit, strategy and the way out of afghanistan." and celeste ward gventer was a deputy assistant secretary of defense in 2006 and 2007. she also served as an advisor to u.s. political and military leaders in...
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of similar to what nixon will later do in his career which is in 68, i have a secret plan to end the vietnam or. dwight eisenhower didn't really have anything in mind other than to say i will go to korea and i will settle the war. you don't have to worry about the war if i'm elected president. is also a huge debate going on about how to fight the cold war that this book examines throughout the course of this electoral cycle. i don't deal much with the liberal containment side of this vision. that's a vision of adlai stevenson or jane ashton. that is not as prominent in this book. i'm more interested in sort of the hypercharged emotionalism that conservatives brought to foreign-policy and the way they conceptualize fighting the cold war. you hear this sort of hypercharged emotionalism throughout the story that i tell in this book. mostly when richard nixon is consistently attacking acheson and adlai stevenson. yakir lot of language about rollback and liberatioliberatio n. these are the two big key words and a lot of republican, conservative republican discourse about foreign-policy and in fac
of similar to what nixon will later do in his career which is in 68, i have a secret plan to end the vietnam or. dwight eisenhower didn't really have anything in mind other than to say i will go to korea and i will settle the war. you don't have to worry about the war if i'm elected president. is also a huge debate going on about how to fight the cold war that this book examines throughout the course of this electoral cycle. i don't deal much with the liberal containment side of this vision....
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today, kerry looked back on his public career, starting with his service in vietnam and as a leading anti-war figure. in the senate, he focused on foreign policy, and was his party's nominee for president in 2004. >> eight years ago, i admit i had a slightly different plan to leave the senate. but 61 million americans voted they want me to stay with you. staying here, i learned about humility, and i learned sometimes the greatest lesson comes not from victory, but from dusting yourself off. >> holman: in boston today, the governor of massachusetts tapped william "mo" cowan-- a former aide to the governor-- as interim senator. cowan will become the second black member of this senate. cowan said he has no plans to run in the june special election to fill the remaining 18 months of kerry's term. donor countries pledged more than $1.5 billion today, in humanitarian aid for syria. about a billion of the total will go to help neighboring countries who are hosting refugees. the rest will go to aid syrians displaced inside their country. at the conference in kuwait, u.n. secretary-general ba
today, kerry looked back on his public career, starting with his service in vietnam and as a leading anti-war figure. in the senate, he focused on foreign policy, and was his party's nominee for president in 2004. >> eight years ago, i admit i had a slightly different plan to leave the senate. but 61 million americans voted they want me to stay with you. staying here, i learned about humility, and i learned sometimes the greatest lesson comes not from victory, but from dusting yourself...
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with soliciting ideas and proposals for reform, congressman mike thompson, who himself is a wounded vietnam veteran and a gunowner and a hunter, mike thompson held a very well attended civil and constructive town hall in his district in california. he is holding another town hall meeting tonight, and he is holding another one the day after that. today new york governor andrew cuomo in his state of the state address proposed several new gun-related reforms that he intends to pursue, including a ban on high capacity magazines. >> we are proposing today common sense measures. and i say to you forget the extremists. it's simple. no one hunts with an assault rifle. no one needs ten bullets to kill a deer. and too many innocent people have died already. end the madness now. pass safe, reasonable gun control in the state of new york. make this state safer. save lives, set them an example for the rest of the nation. let them look at new york and say this is what you can do, and this is what you should do. this is new york, a progressive capital. you show them how we lead. >> you show them how we le
with soliciting ideas and proposals for reform, congressman mike thompson, who himself is a wounded vietnam veteran and a gunowner and a hunter, mike thompson held a very well attended civil and constructive town hall in his district in california. he is holding another town hall meeting tonight, and he is holding another one the day after that. today new york governor andrew cuomo in his state of the state address proposed several new gun-related reforms that he intends to pursue, including a...
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it's worth remembering both men are veterans of the vietnam war, and that's certainly a band of brothers. we'll be right back. i have low testosterone. there, i said it. how did i know? well, i didn't really. see, i figured low testosterone would decrease my sex drive... but when i started losing energy and became moody... that's when i had an honest conversation with my doctor. we discussed all the symptoms... then he gave me some blood tests. showed it was low t. that's it. it was a number -- not just me. [ male announcer ] today, men with low t have androgel 1.62% (testosterone gel). the #1 prescribed topical testosterone replacement therapy, increases testosterone when used daily. women and children should avoid contact with application sites. discontinue androgel and call your doctor if you see unexpected signs of early puberty in a child, or signs in a woman, which may include changes in body hair or a large increase in acne, possibly due to accidental exposure. men with breast cancer or who have or might have prostate cancer, and women who are or may become pregnant or are breastf
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he is a wounded vietnam combat veteran. he is a gunowner himself. he says on the day of the newtown shootings last month, when he learned of the shootings, he had been out that morning duck hunting. >> first and foremost, i'm a gunowner, and i've been a gunowner as long as i can remember and hunted all my life. and a strong proponent of the second amendment. but i'm also a parent and a grandparent. and i know that we can own guns and use guns safely and properly. >> congressman mike thompson speaking today at an event with rahm emanuel, the former white house chief of staff and the former democratic congressman and the current mayor of chicago. mayor emanuel today announcing that chicago will seek to divest its pension funds, which are big investment vehicles, those are a lot of money, he will seek to divest them from all gun manufacturers. this follows the lead of california's state teachers pension fund, which has done much the same thing. mayor emanuel says he will try to get other big city mayors to follow suit. now, there are all sorts of new p
he is a wounded vietnam combat veteran. he is a gunowner himself. he says on the day of the newtown shootings last month, when he learned of the shootings, he had been out that morning duck hunting. >> first and foremost, i'm a gunowner, and i've been a gunowner as long as i can remember and hunted all my life. and a strong proponent of the second amendment. but i'm also a parent and a grandparent. and i know that we can own guns and use guns safely and properly. >> congressman mike...
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was going to say what that shows is when you think about lbj's inaugural in 1965 hardly mentioning vietnam, roosevelt's second, world war ii happened in his term. >> they are very concerned about the general state of play and that the united states is not engaged. >> look at george w. bush. in 2000 he said he would have a restrained, humble foreign policy. then 9/11 hit. and now we've been dealing with wars for over a decade. we have already made reference to it while the chinese have been investing in africa. we've been dropping bombs in iraq. we are now in afghanistan. 12 years in. $2 billion a week. our defense budget keeps exploding. so an iranian crisis comes at the absolute worst time for this country. >> that's what i was saying early on. >> on so many points. >> things could change dramatically this year. >> richard and i have talked about this a lot. in search of a metaphor, have i been thinking about the islamic role in africa and the middle east, think of it size a large, very dry forest after years of drought. and a lightning strike anywhere, which is unanticipated, starts a br
was going to say what that shows is when you think about lbj's inaugural in 1965 hardly mentioning vietnam, roosevelt's second, world war ii happened in his term. >> they are very concerned about the general state of play and that the united states is not engaged. >> look at george w. bush. in 2000 he said he would have a restrained, humble foreign policy. then 9/11 hit. and now we've been dealing with wars for over a decade. we have already made reference to it while the chinese...
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it's worth remembering both men are veterans of the vietnam war and that's certainly a band of brothers. we'll be right back. hey, our salads. [ bop ] [ bop ] [ bop ] you can do that all you want, i don't like v8 juice. [ male announcer ] how about v8 v-fusion. a full serving of vegetables, a full serving of fruit. but what you taste is the fruit. so even you... could've had a v8. if we took the already great sentra apart and completely reimagined it with best-in-class combined mpg and more interior room than corolla and civic and a technology suite with bluetooth, navigation, and other handy stuff? yeah, that would be cool. introducing the all-new nissan sentra. it's our most innovative sentra ever. nissan. innovation that excites. now get a $169 per month lease on a new nissan sentra, plus $500 bonus cash. ♪ but, dad, you've got... [ voice of dennis ] allstate. with accident forgiveness, they guarantee your rates won't go up just because of an accident. smart kid. [ voice of dennis ] indeed. are you in good hands? >>> january 22nd, 1973, will stand out as one of the great days for f
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johnson's rise to power as we turn to the final book he is writing now about johnson's president and vietnam, his demeanor has suddenly changed. >> the story is going to turn very dark as soon
johnson's rise to power as we turn to the final book he is writing now about johnson's president and vietnam, his demeanor has suddenly changed. >> the story is going to turn very dark as soon
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except for roosevelt, and yet he felt that he could not level with congress about his escalation in vietnam so he was very oblique about some of the things he did. in the long run, that proved to be disastrous for that presidency. i don't think barack obama ever needed to learn that lesson, but in case he did, i think he knows it very well. >> michael, always great to see you. thank you. >> same here, chris. >>> it's election day in israel. prime minister benjamin netanyahu cast his ballot early today. he is expected to be elected to a third term but his party is likely to lose receipts in parliament. netanyahu says iran's nuclear threat is at the top of his agenda. his critics argue he hasn't done enough to work on peace with the palestinians. ♪ just one bite opens a world of delight... ♪ with tasty grilled flavor and goodness to savor ♪ ♪ friskies grillers blend. ♪ feed the senses. [ bop ] [ bop ] [ bop ] you can do that all you want, i don't like v8 juice. [ male announcer ] how about v8 v-fusion. a full serving of vegetables, a full serving of fruit. but what you taste is the
except for roosevelt, and yet he felt that he could not level with congress about his escalation in vietnam so he was very oblique about some of the things he did. in the long run, that proved to be disastrous for that presidency. i don't think barack obama ever needed to learn that lesson, but in case he did, i think he knows it very well. >> michael, always great to see you. thank you. >> same here, chris. >>> it's election day in israel. prime minister benjamin netanyahu...
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he's got a war record, veteran of the vietnam war. and he's very involved in that. and it will be very interesting because he'll also know what the limits are in terms of congress and the whole american system when it comes to enacting foreign policy. >> are you encouraged, optimistic by where the arab spring may go this year or are you quite pessimistic? >> i've been of tptimistic frome beginning. there will always be bumps in the road. but for me, this monumental epochal history-making situation in that part of the world is positive. and democracy is what has to happen in that part of the world. we're seeing the ugly side of the fallout in mali. but that can be dealt with if the west is willing to do it. you can't pussy-foot around these people. you have to be there for the long haul, whether it's politically difficult or not. you don't have to put boots on the ground, but you have to facilitate other boots on the ground and really decide that you're going to defeat and not just contain. >> christiane amanpour, thank you very much. >> thank you. >>> we'll be right
he's got a war record, veteran of the vietnam war. and he's very involved in that. and it will be very interesting because he'll also know what the limits are in terms of congress and the whole american system when it comes to enacting foreign policy. >> are you encouraged, optimistic by where the arab spring may go this year or are you quite pessimistic? >> i've been of tptimistic frome beginning. there will always be bumps in the road. but for me, this monumental epochal...
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he was a vietnam veteran. he got 0.1% of the popular vote ultimately. but in august 1992, about 2 1/2 months before the presidential election, he ended up playing the mediator role, sort of the negotiator's role, in ending an 11-day violent fatal armed standoff at the top of a mountain in northern idaho about 30 miles from the canadian border. >> it ended without gunfire, unlike the way it began. randy weaver, his three children, and the man the government reluctantly accepted as its negotiator walked out of a mountaintop cabin late this afternoon hand in hand. >> he didn't come out. we went in. and we hugged each other. and we kissed the girls and hugged them. and it's a very emotional thing. >> it was 11 days ago when the siege in northern i'd began. weaver, his wife, three kids, and a friend were found hiding in a remote cabin not far from the canadian border. weaver was wanted on charges of selling sawed-off shotguns. there was a shootout, and a federal marshal was killed. the next day weaver's wife was killed. a son killed. and a friend wounded. no
he was a vietnam veteran. he got 0.1% of the popular vote ultimately. but in august 1992, about 2 1/2 months before the presidential election, he ended up playing the mediator role, sort of the negotiator's role, in ending an 11-day violent fatal armed standoff at the top of a mountain in northern idaho about 30 miles from the canadian border. >> it ended without gunfire, unlike the way it began. randy weaver, his three children, and the man the government reluctantly accepted as its...
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several prominent lawmakers including republican senator john mccain-- himself a victim of torture in the vietnam war-- criticized the film for suggesting that such methods were helpful in finding bin laden. mccain spoke on cnn. >> first of all, the brutality depicted there is very disturbing. the moral of the story is that torture does not work. it is hateful, it is harmful, incredibly harmful to the united states of america. and to somehow make people believe that it was responsible for the elimination of osama bin laden is in my view unacceptable. >> reporter: mccain and democratic senator dianne feinstein, who heads the senate intelligence committee, sent two letters to the acting c.i.a. director, demanding to know what information the agency had provided the filmmakers. at a washington d.c. screening tuesday night, protestors dressed as detainees outside the newseum showed their objections, while inside, the filmmakers, who have said they deplore torture, told the "newshour" the dramatized account was intended to highlight an extraordinary intelligence effort. >> everybody's entitled to thei
several prominent lawmakers including republican senator john mccain-- himself a victim of torture in the vietnam war-- criticized the film for suggesting that such methods were helpful in finding bin laden. mccain spoke on cnn. >> first of all, the brutality depicted there is very disturbing. the moral of the story is that torture does not work. it is hateful, it is harmful, incredibly harmful to the united states of america. and to somehow make people believe that it was responsible for...
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same committee he sat before today, to talk about the war he had just returned from, which was the vietnam war. john kerry famously protested against that war. and now the people who are protesting against the current war and maybe the future ones are protesting at his hearing, at his confirmation. and everybody else rolls their eyes and laughs at it but he looked at her instead and said essentially, hey, that was me. full circle. chronic osteoarthritis pain. imagine living your life with less chronic low back pain. imagine you with less pain. cymbalta can help. cymbalta is fda-approved to manage chronic musculoskeletal pain. one non-narcotic pill a day, every day, can help reduce this pain. tell your doctor right away if your mood worsens, you have unusual changes in mood or behavior or thoughts of suicide. antidepressants can increase these in children, teens, and young adults. cymbalta is not for children under 18. people taking maois, linezolid or thioridazine or with uncontrolled glaucoma should not take cymbalta. taking it with nsaid pain relievers, aspirin or blood thinners may incr
same committee he sat before today, to talk about the war he had just returned from, which was the vietnam war. john kerry famously protested against that war. and now the people who are protesting against the current war and maybe the future ones are protesting at his hearing, at his confirmation. and everybody else rolls their eyes and laughs at it but he looked at her instead and said essentially, hey, that was me. full circle. chronic osteoarthritis pain. imagine living your life with less...
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>> reporter: indeed, key first appeared before the senate foreign relations committee in 1971, as a vietnam veteran challenging senators over the war. >> we cannot fight communism all over the world and i think we should have learnt that lesson by now. >> reporter: now, the massachusetts democrat chairs the committee, and he warned today that the u.s. must put its fiscal house in order, to lead in the age of an emerging china and the arab awakening. >> it is urgent that we show people in the rest of the world that we can get our business done in an effective and timely way. every day that goes by where america is uncertain about engaging in that arena or unwilling to put our best foot forward and win, unwilling to demonstrate our resolve to lead is a day in which we weaken our nation itself. >> reporter: as secretary of state, kerry would face the thorny issue of iran and its nuclear program. he said today he is totally committed to enforcing sanctions. >> we must resolve the questions surrounding iran's nuclear program. the president has made it definitive; we will do what we must do to pr
>> reporter: indeed, key first appeared before the senate foreign relations committee in 1971, as a vietnam veteran challenging senators over the war. >> we cannot fight communism all over the world and i think we should have learnt that lesson by now. >> reporter: now, the massachusetts democrat chairs the committee, and he warned today that the u.s. must put its fiscal house in order, to lead in the age of an emerging china and the arab awakening. >> it is urgent that...
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things that was most excited was to have my dad and my mom with us and i remember when my father was in vietnam, my mother would try to keep up christmas the same way. in fact, my oldest brother became a soldier for 31 years. >> you're the spitting image, now that. >> i do. my son was telling me, it might be a little scary. she would keep that up and for me, christmas had a special time in which the joy of family was there, but when you're away a little of the hollowness. all throughout your life you've got a little rebellion in you. as a young kid, nearly set your house on fire. what were you thinking, general? >> i guess i wasn't. i played for mario's pizza parlor basketball team and we were that season 0-10, but i draped this red basketball uniform over a lamp in my room because it produced a red glow around the room, i thought that was great i went off somewhere else and of course the nylon uniform melted, set the desk on fire and my father comes up and the desk he had built for my brother and i was a wall of flame. he puts it out and in a day or so we sort of had to have a meeting of the m
things that was most excited was to have my dad and my mom with us and i remember when my father was in vietnam, my mother would try to keep up christmas the same way. in fact, my oldest brother became a soldier for 31 years. >> you're the spitting image, now that. >> i do. my son was telling me, it might be a little scary. she would keep that up and for me, christmas had a special time in which the joy of family was there, but when you're away a little of the hollowness. all...
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. >> bill: president obama has nominated chuck nailing former republican and vietnam vet as new secretary of defense. some believe this nomination will make it easier for the president to cut back military funding. so what does charles krauthammer think? he joins us now from washington. and you say? >> i think that's absolutely right. i think what's happening here is in a second term, obama is going to show who he really is. remember what he said to the soviet president after the election i will be more flexible, which means he can be more of who he wants to be. number one item on his agenda is to cut down the defense department and his current secretary of defense. leon panetta said to the kind of cuts in automatic cuts that were supposed to go into effect on january the 1st, that have now been delayed for two months, if they went into effect, it would destroy the military, hollow it out. he gave very strong indications he might resign on principle. because he could not in good conscience carry it out. when hagel was asked about that. about the statements that panetta had made. he said t
. >> bill: president obama has nominated chuck nailing former republican and vietnam vet as new secretary of defense. some believe this nomination will make it easier for the president to cut back military funding. so what does charles krauthammer think? he joins us now from washington. and you say? >> i think that's absolutely right. i think what's happening here is in a second term, obama is going to show who he really is. remember what he said to the soviet president after the...
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have members of your family in the service and he's had a generation to reflect on the experiences of vietnam. i think he's going to be a guy who knows how to use force decisively and effectively and avoids ineffective and indecisive commitments of u.s. forces. >> well, certainly no one including myself doubts his valor as a soldier. that's not the issue. but tony fratto, it sounds like he's also soft on iran. he voted against iranian sanctions, that in turn makes me think or wonder or fear that, in fact, he would not put war on the table if iran got nuclear weapons. your take? >> yeah, i think that's really the bigger question, larry. a lot of questions about some of the things that hagel has said over the course of his career i don't know him wouldn't presume to make a comment on what his views are on the jewish community. he has well earned a reputation for saying a lot of things to get attention. some of those things purely critical of his own party. which is one of the ways to unlock, you know, the key to unlock the way to become a media darling in washington is to be critical of your ow
have members of your family in the service and he's had a generation to reflect on the experiences of vietnam. i think he's going to be a guy who knows how to use force decisively and effectively and avoids ineffective and indecisive commitments of u.s. forces. >> well, certainly no one including myself doubts his valor as a soldier. that's not the issue. but tony fratto, it sounds like he's also soft on iran. he voted against iranian sanctions, that in turn makes me think or wonder or...
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2007 and his memoir, 2008, it's in the context of someone who has been a consistent conservative, a vietnam vet who felt burned by america's venture into iraq when we started getting all the information, and he started saying look, we blundered into this war because of flawed intelligence, because of ideology and in that context he was saying war with iran should not be our first option. that is not in america's interests. what's extraordinary to me is how that perspective, that consistent small government conservatism is being called out of the mainstream by some in the conservative movement today. it raises question about who's in the mainstream. colin powell, bob gates, frank carlucci, reagan's secretary of defense support hagel. who is outside the mainstream here? >> interesting point. peter, most people would say the united states is war-weary. if we are looking at a deadline, israel would like there to be a deadline of late spring, early summer in terms of a decision on iran. leon panetta, the defense secretary, current defense secretary, told me he thinks we have more time than that.
2007 and his memoir, 2008, it's in the context of someone who has been a consistent conservative, a vietnam vet who felt burned by america's venture into iraq when we started getting all the information, and he started saying look, we blundered into this war because of flawed intelligence, because of ideology and in that context he was saying war with iran should not be our first option. that is not in america's interests. what's extraordinary to me is how that perspective, that consistent...
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i tend to be an optimist about the united states because people gave up on us on vietnam, on the watergate crisis, and we came charging back. and i think we'll do it here. but it would be nice if we didn't have to go to the cliff each time to do it. >> well, you know, and again, when you start talking about the kind of relationships and the kind of leadership, you know, we till seem to have -- we still seem to have this atmosphere where people talk more at each other than trying to find some common ground, some common goal in getting it down. and, you know, you broached the whole goal of growth and jobs, and that is the answer to all of this. you also talked a lot about contagion. on this one. now, we all, you know, sensed that if the your -- european situation got worse and they're representing 22% of gdp, you know, the effect it's going to have on the united states, india and brazil is going to be real and everything. so with 40% of their exports coming here to the united states and so forth, you know, all of a sudden, you know, we started to see the effect in our own growth, in india's
i tend to be an optimist about the united states because people gave up on us on vietnam, on the watergate crisis, and we came charging back. and i think we'll do it here. but it would be nice if we didn't have to go to the cliff each time to do it. >> well, you know, and again, when you start talking about the kind of relationships and the kind of leadership, you know, we till seem to have -- we still seem to have this atmosphere where people talk more at each other than trying to find...
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carterrary term, maybe as divided as it is all the way back to 1968, when the country was torn apart by the vietnam war. what are your priorities as you go into this new term? >> well, the first priority, bob, is obviously to continue to grow the economy, focus on the middle class, and getting people in the middle class. that's the core mission of the country. we've, obviously, are beginning to recover from the recession, but we have a lot more work to do. but if you look at some-- yes, we have some political divisions in this country. there's vast support out there for balanced deficit reduction, investments in education and manufacturing, immigration reform, gun safety. so on the issues the president intends to really push and focus on, there's massive support in the country, even among republicans. let's not lose sight of that, and that's why we're going to do a better job in the second term-- while we're going to do all we can to work with congress and negotiate, to also make sure the american people are connected to what's going on here. i think to really get the kind of change here in washing
carterrary term, maybe as divided as it is all the way back to 1968, when the country was torn apart by the vietnam war. what are your priorities as you go into this new term? >> well, the first priority, bob, is obviously to continue to grow the economy, focus on the middle class, and getting people in the middle class. that's the core mission of the country. we've, obviously, are beginning to recover from the recession, but we have a lot more work to do. but if you look at some-- yes,...
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today, kerry looked back on his public career, starting with his service in vietnam and as a leading anti-war figure. in the senate, he focused on foreign policy, and was his party's nominee for president in 2004. >> eight years ago, i admit i had a slightly different plan to leave the senate. but 61 million americans voted they want me to stay with you. staying here i learned about humility, and i learned sometimes the greatest lesson comes not from victory, but from dusting yourself off. >> holman: in boston today, the governor of massachusetts tapped william "mo" cowan-- a former aide to the governor-- as interim senator. cowan will become the second black member of this senate. cowan said he has no plans to run in the june special election to fill the remaining 18 months of kerry's term. donor countries pledged more than $1.5 billion today, in humanitarian aid for syria. about a billion of the total will go to help neighboring countries who are hosting refugees. the rest will go to aid syrians displaced inside their country. at the conference in kuwait, u.n. secretary-general ban
today, kerry looked back on his public career, starting with his service in vietnam and as a leading anti-war figure. in the senate, he focused on foreign policy, and was his party's nominee for president in 2004. >> eight years ago, i admit i had a slightly different plan to leave the senate. but 61 million americans voted they want me to stay with you. staying here i learned about humility, and i learned sometimes the greatest lesson comes not from victory, but from dusting yourself...
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prominent lawmakers, including republican senator john mccain-- himself a victim of torture in the vietnam war-- criticized the film for suggesting that such methods were helpful in finding bin laden. mccain spoke on cnn. >> first of all, the brutality depicted there is very disturbing. the moral of the story is that torture does not work. it is hateful, it is harmful, incredibly harmful to the united states of america. and to somehow make people believe that it was responsible for the elimination of osama bin laden is in my view unacceptable. >> reporter: mccain and democratic senator dianne feinstein, who heads the senate intelligence committee, sent two letters to the acting c.i.a. director, demanding to know what information the agency had provided the filmmakers. at a washington, d.c. screening tuesday night, protestors dressed as detainees outside the newseum showed their objections, while inside, the filmmakers, who have said they deplore torture, told the "newshour" the dramatized account was intended to highlight an extraordinary intelligence effort. >> everybody's entitled to the
prominent lawmakers, including republican senator john mccain-- himself a victim of torture in the vietnam war-- criticized the film for suggesting that such methods were helpful in finding bin laden. mccain spoke on cnn. >> first of all, the brutality depicted there is very disturbing. the moral of the story is that torture does not work. it is hateful, it is harmful, incredibly harmful to the united states of america. and to somehow make people believe that it was responsible for the...
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he would be the first enlisted man and first vietnam vet to serve as secretary of defense, he was wounded in combat and he earned two purple hearts. business and management experience, after all, the pentagon is a huge organization. check. hagel cofounded a company called van guard cellular systems which made him a multimillionaire. and knowing how to get things done in washington. check on that. hagel served two terms as a u.s. senator from nebraska and served as deputy administrator of the veterans administration. plus he's a republican nominated by a democrat, so it sounds pretty perfect, right? today, president obama told the nation why he loved chuck hagel. >> in the senate, i came to admire his courage and his judgment, his willingness to speak his mind, even if it wasn't popular. even if it defied the conventional wisdom. >> his willingness to speak his mind, no, is part of what's getting him in trouble with members of both parties. there's a long and detailed record, framor example, on what thinks about iran. "outfront," george wilson. all right, i want to start with both of you,
he would be the first enlisted man and first vietnam vet to serve as secretary of defense, he was wounded in combat and he earned two purple hearts. business and management experience, after all, the pentagon is a huge organization. check. hagel cofounded a company called van guard cellular systems which made him a multimillionaire. and knowing how to get things done in washington. check on that. hagel served two terms as a u.s. senator from nebraska and served as deputy administrator of the...
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any movie about vietnam or the '60s. you would think the guy in this who performed it would be a zilli zillionare. this was a gold record put online with this note. the singer posted it saying i'm the former lead singer of the '60s band. i didn't squander my money on drugs or fancy home. i have no money. that man is going to be my guest on "press here" this sunday. as you can see, we're putting the band back together. this is lester chambers and his new band called the mud stompers. he was part of the chambers brothers and time has come today for the classic songs. why was he not paid? we'll do that and play some funky music as well. >> that sounds good. we were here yesterday right before 11:00 and we could hear. it was awesome. worth sticking around for. >> we'll tune in. sounds good. >> sweet music to the party. i like it. those guys know how to get down. christina loren is telling us how mother nature will get down and get her swerve on this weekend. >> she's shaking the groove just to stay warm out there. good morni
any movie about vietnam or the '60s. you would think the guy in this who performed it would be a zilli zillionare. this was a gold record put online with this note. the singer posted it saying i'm the former lead singer of the '60s band. i didn't squander my money on drugs or fancy home. i have no money. that man is going to be my guest on "press here" this sunday. as you can see, we're putting the band back together. this is lester chambers and his new band called the mud stompers....
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we even saw it after vietnam. i mean, the issues of medical health, of personal stress, of family stress, in fact, go up after the actual fighting has stopped and the soldiers redeploy. they're back in garrison. because the force is still under a lot of stress. we find now in fact that the military is about to get into this phase of downsizing, probably 100,000 or so army soldiers and marines will be leaving the military. there are going to be budget cuts. all these things are putting great burden on the leadership and great burden on the soldiers on the front lines. that accumulates and builds and it ends up that you've got that group that, in fact, will have to commit suicide as their expression of that stress. >> suarez: is that acculumation of factors why you say that the number is actually going to go up before it goes down. >> i think for the next two or three years we're going to see even a trend go even higher. >> suarez: if someone is observed or in fact reports that they themselves are having troubles, s
we even saw it after vietnam. i mean, the issues of medical health, of personal stress, of family stress, in fact, go up after the actual fighting has stopped and the soldiers redeploy. they're back in garrison. because the force is still under a lot of stress. we find now in fact that the military is about to get into this phase of downsizing, probably 100,000 or so army soldiers and marines will be leaving the military. there are going to be budget cuts. all these things are putting great...
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mine was earned off vietnam in 1968. over the south pacific in 1943. i got mine in iraq, 2003. usaa auto insurance is often handed down from generation to generation. because it offers a superior level of protection, and because usaa's commitment to serve the military, veterans and their families is without equal. begin your legacy, get an auto insurance quote. usaa. we know what it means to serve. >>> gold really losing its shine falling for the sixth straight week, a move accelerated where the fed may be easing on the pump sooner than expected. sharon epperson is at the nymex with the details. sharon? >> reporter: quite a day and quite a week for gold prices. we saw gold fall to a low of 1626 an ounce in the session, but it's recovered nicely, up about 30 bucks of the lows of the day, but keep in mind as traders are rebalancing perhaps their positions and looking at other asset classes, we have seen a lot of fluctuations in the gold market. there's also no inflation, and so another reason why traders may be looking elsewhere from the gold market. we are going to see rebalanci
mine was earned off vietnam in 1968. over the south pacific in 1943. i got mine in iraq, 2003. usaa auto insurance is often handed down from generation to generation. because it offers a superior level of protection, and because usaa's commitment to serve the military, veterans and their families is without equal. begin your legacy, get an auto insurance quote. usaa. we know what it means to serve. >>> gold really losing its shine falling for the sixth straight week, a move accelerated...
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mine was earned off vietnam in 1968. over the south pacific in 1943. i got mine in iraq, 2003. usaa auto insurance is often handed down from generation to generation. because it offers a superior level of protection, and because usaa's commitment to serve the military, veterans and their families is without equal. begin your legacy, get an auto insurance quote. usaa. we know what it means to serve. >>> welcome back. let's do our top three trades on the first trading day of 2013. that's our first one, joe, target is down 1.5% today. >> jeffries downgraded from buy to hold, $59 price target september 21st, that's the high end target. it's not going to raise the dividend until 2017. the better play is walmart. >> shares of facebook getting a pop today, jpmorgan increasing its price target, simon, there was also some other positive chatter on the street about this one. >> basically making strong progress in mobile and mobilization, the whole story is about facebook and they've come out with two new revenue generating products, real time bidding and gifts. >> and tiffany is getting
mine was earned off vietnam in 1968. over the south pacific in 1943. i got mine in iraq, 2003. usaa auto insurance is often handed down from generation to generation. because it offers a superior level of protection, and because usaa's commitment to serve the military, veterans and their families is without equal. begin your legacy, get an auto insurance quote. usaa. we know what it means to serve. >>> welcome back. let's do our top three trades on the first trading day of 2013. that's...
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he's a vietnam war vet. he won the purple heart. obviously has some credentials behind him to help him lead the defense department. also a lot of questions ahead in these confirmation hearings. >> last question, tracie, before we let you go. if hagel is not confirmed, who is the backup? >> reporter: there were several other people we understand on the short list. the number two ashton carter at the defense department. there were backups and other people on the short list. obviously the president thinks he can get through this confirmation process. we don't know what that will happen. >> thanks so much. >> we're following a developing story overseas this morning. we have new video of google executive chairman eric schmidt alongside bill richardson. both arriving together in north korea. this one being called a humanitarian trip. the obama administration is frowning on. for more on this and some insight, we're joined by business and tech reporter scott mcgrew. more clarity as to why this pair is there. >> good morning. we're hearing m
he's a vietnam war vet. he won the purple heart. obviously has some credentials behind him to help him lead the defense department. also a lot of questions ahead in these confirmation hearings. >> last question, tracie, before we let you go. if hagel is not confirmed, who is the backup? >> reporter: there were several other people we understand on the short list. the number two ashton carter at the defense department. there were backups and other people on the short list. obviously...
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reporter: indeed, kerry first appeared before the senate foreign relations committee in 1971, as a vietnam veteran challenging senators over the war. >> we cannot fight communism all over the world and i think we should have learnt that lesson by now. >> reporter: now, the massachusetts democrat chairs the committee, and he warned today that the u.s. must put its fiscal house in order, to lead in the age of an emerging china and the arab awakening. >> it is urgent that we show people in the rest of the world that we can get our business done in an effective and timely way. every day that goes by where america is uncertain about engaging in that arena or unwilling to put our best foot forward and win, unwilling to demonstrate our resolve to lead is a day in which we weaken our nation itself. >> reporter: as secretary of state, kerry would face the thorny issue of iran and its nuclear program. he said today he is totally committed to enforcing sanctions. >> we must resolve the questions surrounding iran's nuclear program. the president has made it definitive; we will do what we must do to pr
reporter: indeed, kerry first appeared before the senate foreign relations committee in 1971, as a vietnam veteran challenging senators over the war. >> we cannot fight communism all over the world and i think we should have learnt that lesson by now. >> reporter: now, the massachusetts democrat chairs the committee, and he warned today that the u.s. must put its fiscal house in order, to lead in the age of an emerging china and the arab awakening. >> it is urgent that we show...
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my husband was going to vietnam, my father-in-law was sick." they were talking about basic, you know, human relationships and responsibility. and the thing about roe that's so interesting is that, or, if i may make the comparison, when brown v. board of education was decided, i think it was understood as an incredible affirmation of the humanity and civil rights of african americans. >> desegregating the public schools. >> desegregating the public schools, rejecting separate and unequal. but the truth was, it really didn't desegregate the schools even until today. roe v. wade, which was won, the whole idea of women's equality under the constitution was in its infancy. there had been almost no decisions in 1973 recognizing discrimination against women as prohibited by the constitution. roe v. wade comes down, and it's not understood as an affirmation of women's personhood, that we don't lose our human rights when we become pregnant. but almost overnight the public health situation dramatically improved, not only because women had access to legal
my husband was going to vietnam, my father-in-law was sick." they were talking about basic, you know, human relationships and responsibility. and the thing about roe that's so interesting is that, or, if i may make the comparison, when brown v. board of education was decided, i think it was understood as an incredible affirmation of the humanity and civil rights of african americans. >> desegregating the public schools. >> desegregating the public schools, rejecting separate...
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you can say about this war, let me just make my point, we don't need to refight the whole history of vietnam. >> that is the danger of saddam. >> it's not going to happen. it's not going to happen. this is going to be a two-month war, not an eight-year war. >> this is going to be a two-month war, not an eight-year war. he was talking about the war that did turn out to be an eight and a half yearlong war in iraq. now bill kristol, the living, breathing symbol of wrong about national security, mr. kristol has a fresh deal going. now his new project is that he wants to stop the nomination of former senator chuck hagel as secretary of defense. president obama today chose the republican for nebraska for that job. despite having been fine with mr. hagel even as a possible vice president for george w. bush in 2000, bill kristol is now leading the opposition to chuck hagel at defense. bill kristol, the same guy who said iraq would take two months, who said the only consequences of us bombing iran already would be good consequences, the man who thought up the sarah palin vice presidency, the one man
you can say about this war, let me just make my point, we don't need to refight the whole history of vietnam. >> that is the danger of saddam. >> it's not going to happen. it's not going to happen. this is going to be a two-month war, not an eight-year war. >> this is going to be a two-month war, not an eight-year war. he was talking about the war that did turn out to be an eight and a half yearlong war in iraq. now bill kristol, the living, breathing symbol of wrong about...
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i should do more about north korea and vietnam, laos, st. paul, those are the remaining communist states. china has a lot of people in it. communism isn't a thing in the past for many but a very serious problem of the present. they ask why you spend so much time? won the answer is that it's right to do and satisfying but another a answer is that very few do it. you have the field almost to yourself. i used to say i think it is probably less true now than when i started to say this 15 years ago but is a palestinian kid falls and skins his knee will read about it in "the new york times" but you can be tortured to death in the cubin and north torian gulags and no one will ever find out about it. so we all do our bit. when i was coming of age when i was a student there was yapping of human rights, but i tell you what the people around me meant primarily. they meant human rights in chile, marcos'' philippines, and above all, apartheid south africa the was the great cause, the great moral cause of the time. i know who the players of south africa w
i should do more about north korea and vietnam, laos, st. paul, those are the remaining communist states. china has a lot of people in it. communism isn't a thing in the past for many but a very serious problem of the present. they ask why you spend so much time? won the answer is that it's right to do and satisfying but another a answer is that very few do it. you have the field almost to yourself. i used to say i think it is probably less true now than when i started to say this 15 years ago...